"I picked up one of these last year. For the lens to make it work like new I still ended up paying less that what a nice newer would have cost me. The lens itself is very, very sharp, with just a touch more bloom around the highlights than the newer versions. "review by Feli @photo.net

Description:

Victor Hasselblad AB is a Swedish manufacturer of medium format cameras, photographic equipment and image scanners based in Sweden. The company is best known for the classic medium-format cameras it has produced since World War II.Throughout the life of the V Series, Hasselblad incrementally updated the cameras. The 500 C gave way to the 500 C/M (1970-1994, Leaf Shutter). Read More....

500 C/M body is probably one of the most common Hasselblad V system body you can find, with removable focusing screen, various accessories such as eye level focusing prism and winding knob with meter, the 500 C/M is very versatile.

The beauty of using a Hasselblad is that it is very modular especially useful if you want to shoot different films under different lighting condition. Just load a film back with 100 ISO and another with 800 ISO , another with Black and White , ta-da you got a camera that can shoot under almost all lighting condition.